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Show HN: I built a daily, "Family Feud" style game

https://toptake.today
1•hansy•6h ago
Hey HN, I built a little game to test out a few technologies I wanted to try out. The object of the game is simple: find the most common answers to a prompt.

How it works:

- player first sees a "warmup" question; this is just a prompt for a future date; I collect answers for the question to feed into an LLM to generate the answers for it

- player moves onto actual game, trying to guess the most common answers; every user submission goes to the LLM to determine how similar it is to the predefined buckets/answers

Some interesting learnings while building this:

- the LLMs do a pretty decent first pass (both in creating the answers and judging them), however the last 20% of work is some serious fine-tuning to avoid hallucinations, strange inconsistencies, etc

- the answer creation LLM has a tough job; it has to take the responses and create workable buckets that (a) aren't too broad and (b) are different from each each, which is surprisingly challenging; It employs pair-wise cosine similarity (how similar two vectors points are to each other) and Jaccard similarity (how similar two sets of data are to each other); still lots of work to be done here as I still see buckets that are too encompassing and share sizable overlap with other buckets

- the judging LLM has answer normalization rules (e.g. plural -> singular, strip special characters, handle typos via Levenshtein distance, etc) and matching logic using cosine similarity plus determining if a guess is hypernym or hyponym in relation to the bucket -> we want answers to be more specific (e.g. guess == "truck", bucket == "vehicle" GOOD, guess == "vehicle", bucket == "truck" BAD)

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

The Machine Stops by Oliver Sacks

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/the-machine-stops
1•RyanShook•3m ago•0 comments

I made instant ChatGPT PDF export with a 'ssyoutube'-like hack

https://www.pdfchatgpt.com/
1•karfly•5m ago•1 comments

Silicon Valley tech CEOs becoming Trump's hostages. Be afraid

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/11/max-taves-silicon-valley-leaders-trump-hostages-meta-google-amazon-apple/
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Fuel Efficiency Standards Are Dead, the V8 Will Live Forever

https://www.jalopnik.com/1909835/fuel-efficiency-standards-fines-dead/
1•rntn•8m ago•0 comments

Nearly everyone opposes Trump's plan to kill space traffic control program

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/nearly-everyone-opposes-trumps-plan-to-kill-space-traffic-control-program/
1•consumer451•9m ago•0 comments

Edison a Dictator and a Pharmacologist

https://substack.com/home/post/p-167761857
1•snats•10m ago•0 comments

Neanderthal Bone Grease Factory

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/neanderthal-bone-grease-factory/
1•chmaynard•12m ago•0 comments

The COW Programming Language

https://esolangs.org/wiki/COW
1•wizardcat•13m ago•1 comments

Researchers develop new tool to measure biological age

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/researchers-develop-new-tool-to-measure-biological-age/
1•bookofjoe•13m ago•3 comments

Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence

https://kimik2.com/
1•BruceWok•15m ago•1 comments

Repo to Markdown

https://repo-to-markdown.com
1•ent101•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FaceGrid – I built a tool to generate AI face grids for your pitch deck

https://facegrid.juleslemee.com/
1•jlemee•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a app to monitor your competitors and get only high-signal info

https://champsignal.com/
1•maximedupre•20m ago•0 comments

I Outline Everything

https://literallythevoid.com/why-i-outline-everything/
1•FigurativeVoid•22m ago•0 comments

Tulpa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa
2•libpcap•22m ago•0 comments

We have computation because of weaving

https://maalvika.substack.com/p/we-have-computation-because-of-weaving
1•animadot•23m ago•0 comments

So Microsoft Deleted Some of Our Packages from Nuget.org Without Notice

https://aaronstannard.com/microsoft-delete-nuget-packages/
4•ghuntley•23m ago•1 comments

How AI has changed developer relations

https://medium.com/@jkim_tran/how-ai-is-changing-developer-relations-79aecffe638e
2•jennifer-trin•23m ago•0 comments

Events vs. Privacy

https://blog.avas.space/events-vs-privacy/
1•speckx•27m ago•0 comments

Pentagon Lifts Drone Restrictions, Sending Shares of Defense Stocks Higher

https://www.wsj.com/business/pentagon-lifts-drone-restrictions-sending-shares-of-defense-stocks-higher-e2640351
1•sandwichsphinx•28m ago•0 comments

'Give a positive review': NUS-Yale Researchers Put Hidden AI Prompt in Paper

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/give-positive-review-hidden-ai-prompt-found-academic-paper-nus-researchers
1•seagullz•28m ago•0 comments

OM System OM-5 II preview

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/om-system-om-5-mark-ii-initial-review
1•PaulHoule•29m ago•0 comments

Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion

https://github.com/GameTechDev/XeGTAO
1•klaussilveira•31m ago•0 comments

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
3•andy99•32m ago•0 comments

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-every-hour-of-every-day-is-here-and-it-changes-everything/
2•xbmcuser•33m ago•1 comments

In Defense of Programming Languages

https://flix.dev/blog/in-defense-of-programming-languages/
2•andsoitis•34m ago•0 comments

One minute of videos from each of the 24 hours on TikTok

https://bendavidsteel.github.io/fullscreen/visual/TwentyFourHourToponymy
1•garrethlee•34m ago•0 comments

Vercel Meetup SDK

https://meetup-sdk.vercel.com/
1•jaredwiener•35m ago•0 comments

Planets larger than Neptune have elevated eccentricities

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07840
1•bikenaga•36m ago•0 comments

Google nerfs Pixel 6a batteries following fire hazard

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/a-mess-of-its-own-making-google-nerfs-second-pixel-phone-battery-this-year/
2•fffrantz•36m ago•0 comments